Mourning in America - Trump Year One: November '16 to

there's no good solution to this mess apart from maybe going back in time and stopping donald trump from existing

or going back in time and grabbing Madison, Hamilton, and Morris by the lapels.

She won't do it

sad

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fwiw 538 crew thinks fraud claims are spurious cf nate's twitter feed

there's already such a void of legitimacy in the govt (for v good reasons) that it would be impossible to reach a conclusion that would not leave a substantial portion of the country feeling cheated

― Mordy, Wednesday, November 23, 2016 12:04 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The electoral college system does this already, also only having two parties

is it better to have the republic destroyed by constitutional crisis or nazis

Reichstag firesale

Ana Navarro going off on Kayleigh McEnany

Lawmakers in Erie, PA have introduced a bill to ban "conversion therapy." http://www.wkbw.com/news/law-introduced-to-ban-conversion-therapy-in-erie-county

In a demonstration of A+ trolling, check out the acronym:

Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke introduced "Prevention of Emotional Neglect and Childhood Endangerment," which will be debated in December and into the New Year.

@mitchellvii
When Trump looks at an apple, he doesn't just see the apple, he sees the soil and the tree and the farmer and the rain.

Trust him.

Bill Mitchell is the drummer in Gay Dad.

The only curiosity he has about that apple is what it might've said about him behind his back.

we don't even know who these apples are, in some cases

Trump is Mao now

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This is a good start.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/hillary-clinton-challenge-results/index.html

not gonna happen

well yeah

talked about upthread a bit

oh!

so have all the votes been counted yet or is that something we have to wait till 2017 for

halderman:

https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-look-at-the-ballots-c61a6113b0ba#.19ly1ivsg

reading this thing make my head hurt

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html?smid=tw-share

his tendency to just be an empty vessel repeating random things people said to him is so pronounced there. 4 years of the big lebowski.

there was a Dubya advisor on NPR this morning saying there should be no presidential press conferences for the first 6 months; the risk of spontaneity is too great.

there should be no presidential press conferences for the first 6 months; the risk of spontaneity is too great.

it was speechwriter Mike Gerson, actaully:

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/23/503108932/former-bush-speechwriter-weighs-in-trumps-message-post-election

also, supershit Leon Panetta has a nice chuckle here over our possible Defense Secretary:

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/23/503108883/leon-panetta-weighs-in-on-the-shaping-of-trumps-security-team

lol @ him attempting to appoint Ben Carson to *something* (despite Carson's insistence that he doesn't have the experience) just to have a black guy in his Cabinet

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-waterboarding-change-mind

now thinks waterboarding is "not going to make the kind of a difference that a lot of people are thinking."

got to the climate change part of that NYT transcript and almost threw my phone across the room. also fuck everyone in that room for apparently just chuckling and moving on at his vapid handwaving around the alt-right and why they might seem energized by his candidacy.

rrrrrgggggh. fuck everybody because hey, we are all fucked anyway.

the NY Times leadership needs to save their phoney-baloney jobs

harrumph

So much money, so little oversight, we're going to get stuff like this every day, and he's not even president yet:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-adviser-received-salary-from-charity-while-steering-breitbart-news/2016/11/22/75340778-af8a-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html

Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon accepted $376,000 in pay over four years for working 30 hours a week at a tiny tax-exempt charity in Tallahassee while also serving as the hands-on executive chairman of Breitbart News Network.

During the same four-year period, the charity paid about $1.3 million in salaries to two other journalists who said they put in 40 hours a week there while also working for the politically conservative news outlet, according to publicly available documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

The salary payments are one part of a close relationship between the nonprofit Government Accountability Institute, a conservative investigative research organization, and for-profit Breitbart News.

Under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart has become the clarion of the alt-right, a term embraced by conservatives estranged from mainstream Republicans and decried by those on the left as racist and xenophobic.

The news site has produced a torrent of incendiary articles about race, immigration, liberals and moderate Republicans. It has been one of the most prominent supporters of Trump and a leading critic of Hillary Clinton.

“We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-’ the permanent political class,” Bannon told The Washington Post in January.

Trump’s selection of Bannon as a senior adviser has drawn widespread criticism from Democrats and others.

The ties between the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and Breitbart call into question the assertions the institute made in filings to the IRS that it is an independent, nonpartisan operation, according to philanthropic specialists and former IRS officials.

Bannon launched the institute in 2012, shortly after taking the helm of Breitbart. He sought tax-exempt status from the IRS by describing the institute as an education group to help the United States and other countries maintain a “higher quality of life” through “promotion of economic freedom,” according to IRS filings.

yeah it is seriously insane the amount of corruption and conflicts of interest that apparently are just going to go unchecked

double lol that Hillary lost because people had doubts about her "ethics"

her ethics sucked

hillary's ethics were just a sop to justify not voting for her - no one who voted for trump really gaf about corruption obv

Only someone as corrupt as he is has the skills to navigate Washington's corruption.

Only someone as corrupt as he is has the skills to navigate further entrench Washington's corruption.

like they're not even fucking trying to hide it at all. it's beyond brazen.

http://i.imgur.com/aLSUmUy.jpg

I really hate to be arguing this position right now, but the flipside is that Clinton supporters were completely dismissive of the same kinds of bad ethical optics wrt the Clintons that they now are angry at Trump about. The legality defense was raised a lot, and I'm not sure there's anything potentially illegal about Bannon receiving a salary from a non-profit while also running a media company. Also many of the issues with Clinton arose out of activity during her tenure as secretary of state and/or when she was known to be preparing a presidential run, not just working in the private sector. Yes the concerns may have been exaggerated, but everyone's insistence on "nothing to see here" was a bit flabbergasting. It felt as though we were all supposed to just trust that the Clintons are good people and have the right intentions, which is exactly how the right now views Trump.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm curious about what the NYT's strategy is when he next tweets about the terrible failing @nytimes.

promise to do better, probably

more on pompeo

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/23/mike-pompeo-religious-war/

Everyone ready for red scare 2.0?

https://newrepublic.com/article/138897/democrats-biggest-disaster

dang

Look past the GOP takeover of Washington, however, and the outlook for Democrats is even more alarming. In November, the party lost control of state legislatures in Iowa, Minnesota, and Kentucky. The state senate in Connecticut, which had been firmly blue, is now evenly split. Republicans ousted Democratic governors in Missouri, New Hampshire, and Vermont. All told, Democrats surrendered about 30 seats in state legislatures. They now hold majorities in just 31 of the country’s 98 legislative bodies, and only 15 of the nation’s governors are Democrats.

The losses in November are part of a sharp and unprecedented decline for the party at the state level. Since Obama took office eight years ago, Democrats have lost over 800 seats in state legislatures. For the first time in history, they do not control a single legislative chamber in the South. Overall, the party is now at its weakest point at the state level since 1920.

I really hate to be arguing this position right now, but the flipside is that Clinton supporters were completely dismissive of the same kinds of bad ethical optics wrt the Clintons that they now are angry at Trump about. The legality defense was raised a lot, and I'm not sure there's anything potentially illegal about Bannon receiving a salary from a non-profit while also running a media company. Also many of the issues with Clinton arose out of activity during her tenure as secretary of state and/or when she was known to be preparing a presidential run, not just working in the private sector. Yes the concerns may have been exaggerated, but everyone's insistence on "nothing to see here" was a bit flabbergasting. It felt as though we were all supposed to just trust that the Clintons are good people and have the right intentions, which is exactly how the right now views Trump.

unless you count the demons who live in morbs' head as site users, there is literally nobody here who actually believes "we were all supposed to just trust that the Clintons are good people and have the right intentions"

he's approximating

happy holidays from my demons to yours!